BFB1 Charlotte Proudman

Charlotte Proudman is an award-winning British barrister and academic and a campaigner for gender equality in our legal system. Her book, He Said, She Said: Truth, Trauma and the Struggle for Justice in Family Court is full of real-life stories concerning forced marriage, domestic abuse, child abduction and female genital mutilation, and highlights the troubling biases and shocking prejudice that underlie our legal system. In conversation with documentary filmmaker Marion Milne.

Charlotte Proudman has dedicated her working life to representing women who seek help in the family law courts. She won Rising Star in the Women in Law Awards 2020, was in the Hot 100 by the Lawyer 2021 and won Case of the Year at the Family Law Awards 2021. She combines her legal career with academic work at the University of Cambridge, where she researches and teaches gender inequality under law in the UK. In 2022, she founded Right to Equality a radical organisation campaigning to change the law for women and girls.